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Three women bend low over rows of dark stone Shivalingams arranged across a pale concrete courtyard at night. The woman on the left wears a green and pink sari and has grey hair pulled back; the middle woman wears a red patterned sari; the woman on the right wears a cream sari with a green border and has a long braid. Each appears to be tending a lingam, with a small brass vessel placed on the ground nearby. Dark, dense rows of lingams stretch into the distance under dim lighting.

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